Musical hope in the face of illness

Whenever the “white wind” blew down the mountain toward Louisville, the city hunched away. People felt it was a miasma aimed at them from the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanitorium near the hilltop. Built at the peak of the TB plague in the early 1900s, this was the showpiece of a complex of buildings, which included a shabby structure segregated for blacks, and numerous other houses...